%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % All rights reserved by Krishna Pillai, http://www.dsplog.com % The file may not be re-distributed without explicit authorization % from Krishna Pillai. % Checked for proper operation with Octave Version 3.0.0 % Author : Krishna Pillai % Email : krishna@dsplog.com % Version : 1.0 % Date : 28th September 2008 % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Script for computing the SNR improvement in % Rayleigh fading channel with Maximal Ratio Combining clear N = 10^3; % number of bits or symbols % Transmitter ip = rand(1,N)>0.5; % generating 0,1 with equal probability s = 2*ip-1; % BPSK modulation 0 -> -1; 1 -> 0 nRx = [1:20]; Eb_N0_dB = [25]; % multiple Eb/N0 values for jj = 1:length(nRx) for ii = 1:length(Eb_N0_dB) n = 1/sqrt(2)*[randn(nRx(jj),N) + j*randn(nRx(jj),N)]; % white gaussian noise, 0dB variance h = 1/sqrt(2)*[randn(nRx(jj),N) + j*randn(nRx(jj),N)]; % Rayleigh channel % Channel and noise Noise addition sD = kron(ones(nRx(jj),1),s);%sD = 1; y = h.*sD + 10^(-Eb_N0_dB(ii)/20)*n; % maximal ratio combining yHat = sum(conj(h).*y,1); % effective SNR EbN0EffSim(ii,jj) = mean(abs(yHat)); EbN0EffThoery(ii,jj) = nRx(jj); end end close all figure plot(nRx,10*log10(EbN0EffThoery),'bd-','LineWidth',2); hold on plot(nRx,10*log10(EbN0EffSim),'mp-','LineWidth',2); axis([1 20 0 16]) grid on legend('theory', 'sim'); xlabel('Number of receive antenna'); ylabel('SNR gain, dB'); title('SNR improvement with Maximal Ratio Combining');